LANHAM, ET AL. v. HOWELL

No. 37722.

210 Miss. 383 (1951)

49 So.2d 701

LANHAM, et al. v. HOWELL.

Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A.

January 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Anderson, J. Milam Morris, Jr., Joe Berman, Forrest G. Cooper, John H. Price, Jr., Arthur Bruce, and Bell & McBee, for appellants.

Means Johnston, Hardy Lott and H. Talbot Odom, for appellee.


Lee, J.

J.D. Lanham, an adult resident of Greenwood, Mississippi, died November 21, 1947. He had been a prosperous merchant, and a real estate agent, and at the time of his death owned property of the approximate value of half a million dollars. His only heirs at law were nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, all of whom, except one, lived in other states. Less than two years prior to his death, in fact, on February 22, 1946, he executed a last...

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